Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)-Region 3 | DHS 22 GPD 111 03 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) for Region 3 is a discretionary FEMA grant under the Department of Homeland Security that is meant to strengthen how jurisdictions plan and work together for large-scale, high-impact disasters. It focuses on closing known capability gaps, encouraging practical and innovative regional solutions, and building on preparedness work that regions have already started. The central aim is to expand regional capacity to manage catastrophic incidents by improving collaboration across partners that would have to coordinate before, during, and after a major event.

A key idea behind the program is FEMA's definition of a "catastrophic incident" from the National Response Framework (4th edition or any superseding edition). In this context, catastrophic incidents can be natural or human-caused, including terrorism, and are characterized by extraordinary levels of casualties, damage, or disruption that severely affect people, critical infrastructure, the environment, the economy, national morale, or basic government functions. Because these events typically overwhelm a single city or county, the grant emphasizes the need for a cohesive regional approach that supports prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery planning in an integrated way rather than as isolated, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction efforts.

The FY 2022 RCPGP is also explicitly aligned with the 2022-2026 FEMA Strategic Plan and its three agency-wide goals: promoting and instilling equity as a foundation of emergency management, leading a whole-of-community approach to climate resilience, and promoting and sustaining a ready FEMA and a prepared nation. Reflecting that alignment, the program's strategic priorities are equity, climate resilience, and readiness. In practice, that means funded activities are intended not only to improve technical planning and coordination for catastrophic scenarios, but also to ensure those improvements reach communities that are often underserved or at higher risk, including groups disproportionately affected by existing hazards and climate-related impacts.

Equity is highlighted as more than a general value statement. The grant stresses fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals before, during, and after a disaster, with attention to people and communities that may face added barriers in preparedness, response, and recovery. The intent is for regional catastrophic planning and related capability-building to consider and address the needs of at-risk populations so that disaster outcomes are not made worse by unequal access to information, services, transportation, healthcare, sheltering, or recovery resources.

From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity is listed as DHS 22 GPD 111 03 01 and falls under CFDA 97.111 within the Disaster Prevention and Relief activity category. Eligible applicants include state governments, county governments, and city or township governments. The posting indicates an anticipated total of about 20 awards, with an award ceiling of $1,200,000 per award. The opportunity was created on June 27, 2022, with an original application closing date of July 29, 2022. Overall, Region 3 applicants were being asked to use this funding to strengthen cross-jurisdictional catastrophic preparedness in ways that measurably improve readiness while incorporating climate resilience and equity into how plans, partnerships, and capabilities are built.

• The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the disaster prevention and relief sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)-Region 3" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 97.111.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jun 27, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 29, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,200,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments.

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